If any comfort at all can be drawn from the banquet of idiocy that Question Period has become on Speaker Andrew Scheer's watch, it is this: By granting discourtesy, disrespect and outright stupidity free rein, he allows the people who pay for it all to see, and to judge.

EDINBURGH, Scotland — While British politicians sleepwalked their way through most of the Scottish referendum campaign before panicking when it suddenly seemed that all might be lost, Harry Potter author J.

By Michael Weissenstein And Tami Abdollah
The number of possible victims of a teacher suspected of drugging and molesting boys during a four-decade career at nearly a dozen schools around the world has risen sharply, with the FBI saying hundreds of people have contacted it about the case.

By Patrick Smith
For The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA - The Speaker of the House of Commons, Andrew Scheer, has had a longtime interest in the Magna Carta, and is one of many people working to bring the historical document to Canada on tour to celebrate its 800th anniversary next year.

OTTAWA – The union representing lawyers working for Canada’s parliamentary watchdogs say a Conservative MP's bill to compel employees in those agencies to disclose their past political activities will politicize the public service and risks “witch hunts” for partisan bureaucrats.